Band Quotes

• When you're on tour with the band, it's a different mentality. You don't sightsee because you're making sure you can do the show. But in musicals, I don't have to sing or play: I just have to use my brain, and the rest of the time, I'm free.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Time
  • Different
  • Free

• That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world.

  

  Jeff Ament
  • World
  • Band

• When the band were really big and we had massive hits, I was always stressed-out and insecure. I thought I wanted the band to be really popular, but when that happened, there was so much pressure to keep it going.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Band
  • Popular

• I don't have to try and be a comedian to fit in the band. It's such a comfortable vibe. Had I been born in Sheffield, I probably would have been in the original lineup.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • Born
  • Comedian
  • Line Up

• We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Music
  • Band
  • Rock

• I was always so jealous of a band like Fleetwood Mac, for instance, where Christine McVie would sing a whole bunch of songs even though Stevie was the obvious lead singer. It added variety to their shows.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Band
  • Jealous
  • Fleetwood Mac

• We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Band
  • Conquer
  • AIDS virus

• I like to contribute. Even in my bands, I can't really just be the singer.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Band
  • Singers

• And there was no money in Chicago for a band.

  

  Santiago Durango Big Black
  • Money
  • Band
  • Chicago

• I'm a band leader and substitute teacher, and then one day they bring me into a music class, and I'm like, 'Wait a minute, I know this stuff.' And the principal is like, 'Just throw the video in and call it a day,' and I'm like, 'That's not good enough. I want these kids to know what it's like to have a gig and all that kind of stuff.'

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Good
  • Music
  • Kids

• When you're looking for a band name, I know it sounds weird, but everything you look at, everything you observe and read, you kind of think, 'Man, maybe that could be our band name.'

  

  Dave Haywood Lady Antebellum
  • Band
  • Weird

• I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn't afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing.

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
  • Band
  • Makeup
  • Glam

• I had to seal off my feelings about Stevie while seeing her every day and having to help her, too. But you get on with it. What was happening to the band was much bigger than any of that.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Help
  • Band

• I still do one song by myself onstage. it gives people the extremely personal thing where it's just me on guitar. But, I think the songs are better as a band. I think with all of the extra little hooks and backing vocals, it just adds to what my initial idea was.

  

  Butterfly Boucher
  • Song
  • Guitar
  • Onstage

• It's been a long struggle. But we've made huge progress. I mean, when I started at Berkeley, women weren't allowed to be part of the band. No women were allowed into the male faculty club. I mean, I was there. I remember that! The worlds were so divided. So the change has been huge.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Long
  • Women
  • Remember

• I've had some really, really wild fun nights in Vegas. I ended up on stage once with this band, The Digital Underground, doing the Humpty Dance.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Dance

• As far as I can see there are no problems with people in our band as far as the relationships go anyway.

  

  Adam Rich
  • People
  • Band

• If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Good
  • Play
  • Stuff

• So happy that Broken Bells is a thing in my life and really cool in so many ways. Not only, like, as something to sell records and be a band and whatnot, but just to give me an outlet and give me a fresh approach on things.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Cool

• I just kind of thought about doing this my whole life. I never doubted myself once. I've always been singing, and I've always wanted to be on tour with a rock band.

  

  Bert McCracken
  • Wanted
  • Rocks
  • Doubted

• We had so many friends who did the band thing, and one of their first moves was to go on tour, and they'd just blow all their money.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • Money
  • Friends
  • Blow

• Nirvana was a band that led you somewhere, as opposed to all the grunge bands that began and ended with themselves.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Band
  • Grunge

• Any time somebody is into your band that's a good thing. And if they're in a really cool, really popular band, that's a better thing.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Band
  • Popular
  • Good Thing

• I'm a songwriter. I've got ideas in the closet that just didn't work out with my band, that I think, "This is a great idea, it's just the wrong guys."

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Band
  • Ideas
  • Workout

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